Power still out to 20,000 in southern Missouri

Thursday, February 5, 2009 | 9:38 p.m. CST; updated 11:08 p.m. CST, Thursday, February 5, 2009

ST. LOUIS — More than a week after an ice storm battered southern Missouri, 20,000 homes and businesses remained without power Thursday, and the State Emergency Management Agency said rebuilding transmission lines in some rural counties could take weeks.

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